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What Are You Waiting For? (Rebroadcast)

Does waiting in line make you a better person or should you be allowed to pay your way to the front?(Photo: Caiaimage/Martin Barraud)

Season 8, Episode 15

This week on Freakonomics Radio:

Standing in line represents a particularly sloppy — and frustrating — way for supply and demand to meet. Why haven’t we found a better way to get what we want? Is it possible that we secretly enjoy waiting in line? And might it even be (gulp) good for us?